Rifle-range shot-indicator.



E. D. CHURCH. RIFLE RANGE SHOT INDICATOR.

APPLICATION man APR. 15. 1910.

Patented May 18, 1915.

INNER CENTER OUTER El @l L J THE NORRIS PETERS CD., PHOTD-LITHO.. WASHINGTON, D C.

UMTED rATENT @Erica EARL D. CHURCH, @F.HARTFORD? CONECTI'CU'T."

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Be it known that I, EARL I).y C'HURGHa citizen ofthe `Unite`d States, residing at Hartford, in `the* county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new yand useful Improvement in' Rifle-'Range Shot-Indicators, of whichthe following is a specification. p This invention relates to an lapparatus which is designed.V to be usedin connection with rifle ranges, eithenindoor `or fieldk ranges, for the purpose VLofindicating tothe marksinan and the scorer at'the firing line,`

the value and position of eachshot as fired. The object yof this invention isto lprovide a4 simple and cheap apparatus which can be conveniently manipulated by the` attendant or marker at the target butt, and which will clearly indicate tothe squadat thefi'iring,y

line,` approximately the exact spot where the bullet hit the target.v y Y This object is attained kby providing atv they firing lineof the range, an indicatorpwhich on its face may have afacsimile of the m14;

get, annunciators numbered to correspond` with the value of theI hit, annunciators let-` tered and arranged clock like to indicate the .e

annular position of the hit, and annunciatrs with characters for indicating the radial location of the hit in the value and yat the annular location indicated by the other characters. Thisindicator is'con'nected by suitable battery circuits `with a transmitterthat is located at the butt, and which has push buttons, or other forms of circuit closers, that may be arranged in any convenient manner, but are desirably` arranged and marked similarly to the annunciators of the indicator, whereby, the attendant at the butt, upon noting the location of a hit, without disturbing the target, closes the proper circuits which cause that location to be instantly` indicated to those at they tiring line.

The drawing shows a diagrammatic representation of a preferred form of an apparatus which embodies this invention.

The indicator l, is set up in any convenient locality at the ring'line, where it can be observed by the person ring andthe scorekeeper. Y

The indicator illustrated has on its face a miniature representation of the target. With the target shown, which is the common style of military target, a shot striking the bulls-eye is given the value of 5. n A shot in the inner white ring has a value of .4. A hit in the outer vwhite ringrhasthe value of 3,

and onel in the Whitefield of the target, outk side, of the "rings, is marked 2, while a miss,

is, of course, O.r

Atthe top of the face of the Patented lly 18, 1915. il.nipiica'ci1iined Api r15, 1910. semaine. 555,697. i

meralsO, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and coveringthesey may be annunciatorshutters constructed to be dropped by anycommon typeof anf nunciator magnets. e Arranged' annularlyabout the outer ring of the target shown on the indicator thatis illustrated, may be openings throughwhich may ybefseenthe usual lettering of a, clock. Annunciator shutters may be arranged to cover these clock figures, and an annunciator magnet of common form Ymay be arranged to.y operate Leach of these shutters. At the bottom of the face ofthe indicator illus-` trated are three openings which may belettered Inner Center, Outer It `is Y convenient although. not essential to have back of these openings the characters -l-v, 0, and Shutterspmay be arranged tocover these characters, and` annunciator arranged to drop/these shutters.

Thefannunciator magnets are not shown,

for any common form, well known to those skilled ,in theart, mayy beused for the pur.`

pose yofdropping the shutters, and the particular type of annunciator mechanism forms no feature of this invention.V

The transmitter 2 is desirably, although not necessarily, provided with a miniature target having the bulls-eye, the inner and outer white rings, and the field space.

Near the upper edge of the face of the transmitter there may be arranged ve push buttons, numbered 0, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Arranged clock-wisey around the outer ring of the target on the transmitter there may be twelve push buttons marked from I to XII, to correspond with 'the clock markings on the indicator.

N ear the lower edge of the transmitter are three push buttons which may be marked 1, 0 and A cable 3, connects the transmitter with the indicator. With the form of apparatus shown this cable consists of twenty wires. These wires are connected so that the 0, 2, 3, 4, and 5 value annunciators of the indimagnets cator are incircuit With the correspondingly A numbered 'value buttons or circuit closers of the transmitter. The clock-Wise arranged and lettered annunciators of the indicatork are connected-With the clock-Wise arranged.

and rlettered circuit Closers of the transmitter. They -i-, O and annuneiators ofthe indicator are connected yWlth the 0, andi circuit closers of the transmitter. A common return Wire 4, communicating with a battery 5, is arranged'to connectk the Several annunciators of the indicator With theY sev-I v eral circuitV closers of the transmitter, after the usual manner of connecting up such'Cir-- While'it isl preferred to arrange the eir!v cuity closers 'similarly-to the arrangementof the indicator annunc1ators,vfor the' purpose of y'eliminating chance of error, this ar-f rangement is not yessential t0 the'inve'ntion,

as the'i'cir'cuit'elos'ers could bearranged in; l any-` other desired'manner.

After a shot has lbeen fired, the 'attendant at the butt usually first pressesthe transmit-v terY button, either `0', 2, 3, 4, 5, ywhich findicates the value of the shot.v He may then, press'one of the rclock-WiseY arranged buttons to indicate the annular position of the hit. Finally rhe-mavpress one of the but- Y tons, $1-, 0,1-, Whichfindicates the radial position in the value, vof VYthe hit, that is,

' vvhetherin the value it is nearer the neigt Y higher value or the next lower value, or is (lpies` of 'this patent'may beV Aobtained for approximately in the center of the value.Y

Ifpwhen this apparatus is installed at a range, ay bullet should'strike'the target', for

' example as shown in the drawings', atthe pointrX, the attendant at theV butty would press thervalue button 4v yand the value an# nunciator shutter I,0f the indicator would drop., showing at the ring line that the n Amarksman. had scored 4. The attendant could then press the clock button XII.

Thisvwould drOp the shutter on the indicator whichY Would show that circumferentially the hit was yin line With XII. 'The attendant Wouldthen press the plus button of the transmitter,"which Would operate the plus annunciator of theindicator, showing that theV shot Was good',`tliat is, it Was near the innerl edge' of the value 4.

By the lemployment of this vsimple appa! ratu's, the location of a hitl von a target is' instantlyindicated to thel person firing, so`

that he may regulate' his `aim, for the next` radial position annunciatorsand diagram!l maticall-y arranged annunciators t0 indicate the annular location, YAsaid Y value-indicating annunciators being, disposed along 'one side ofthe miniature target' and lsaid radial posi,- tion annunciators' being rarranged along an-y other side of said-miniature'target, and a I VVmanually operated transmitter bearing a miniature target having push buttons arranged for controlling ythe valuefindicating annunciators' and also Ma radial position an;

nunciator and having A push buttonsy dia` grammatically arrangedifor controlling the annunciators Vindicatlng the annular location, .Y ,A Y n Y e f EARL l). CHURCH. fWitnesses: Y e fr n `H. R'VVIL'LIAMS,A l

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